Re:Obama’s Remarks on NSA Controversy
by betterunix on Friday June 07, 2013 @05:17PM
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Does that suggestion surprise you? You are talking about an executive branch that is putting tanks, helicopters, and other surplus military equipment in the hands of local law enforcement. For decades, the executive branch has encouraged the use of plea bargains to avoid having cases go to trial. The soldiers who enforce our laws have been deployed against researchers who published the wrong books. Spies have been sent into peaceful anti-war groups. How would you describe the government that undertakes such actions, and then tries to amass even more power?
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Classifying such things as right wing is part of the problem. "Left wing" governments are just as capable of all sorts of statist, authoritarian activity.
But saying it is right wing annoys right wing people who are liberal, saying it is left wing annoys left wing folk.
Politics is more than a left right axis.
Re:Obama’s Remarks on NSA Controversy
by sillysaurus on Friday June 07, 2013 @05:20PM
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The soldiers who enforce our laws have been deployed against researchers who published the wrong books.
What?
Spies have been sent into peaceful anti-war groups.
That's been going on ever since the time of Martin Luther King Jr, and maybe before then.
What?
Probably in reference to the labs of an author of a well-known pair of oddly titled chemistry books being raided.